Pi Engine is a role oriented application development engine for web and mobile, designed as the next generation and a successor to Xoops. Pi is developed upon PHP and MySQL with selected third-party frameworks including but not limited to Zend Framework 2, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular and Backbone.

Pi Project follows the philosophy of open standard, open design, open development and open management. Pi is born as a complete open source project and intended to build a sustainable ecosystem that benefits all contributors and users.

Pi Engine is developed by Pi Team initially as a successor to Xoops led by Ono Kazumi (onokazu), skalpa and Taiwen Jiang (phppp or D.J.) successively since 2001.

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1. Sustainable ecosystem: A sustainable ecosystem built upon open standard, open source code, open development and open management on Github.
2. Engineered development: Quality ensured engineering development with short learning curve, low skill requirements with clean MVC architecture, semantic templating, sophisticated API and strict starndards.
3. Visualized management: Easy and responsive application and content management based on visualized mangement tools and interface with page and widget mechanism.
4. Agile workflow: Role oriented architecture and deployment skeleton supports manageable agile development workflow.

• Modularization for functionality and applications
• Components for basic libraries and services for fundamental system functions
• Theming for presentation and appearance
• Design-friendly templating
• DevOps oriented architecture
• Centralized security enhancement

• Documents at Pi Wiki and APIs.
• Download the latest stable code and latest dev code.
• Clone Pi repo git clone git://github.com/pi-engine/pi.git.
• Resources: Pi modules, Pi themes and [extensions] (https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/blob/master/README-GIT.md).

You may contribute to Pi Engine by working on Pi code and submit to Pi repo with Pull Request or submitting bug reports and feature requests to Issue Tracker.

The Engine is released under a New BSD License.

Demo sites with shared deployment:

• Pi Dialogue (pialog.org | pialogue.org)
• Pi Demo (pi-demo.org)
• Xoops/Pi (xoopsengine.org)

Tools: gruntjs

To execute asset build, use:

grunt 

To execute clear asset build files, use

grunt clear

To execute 'www/asset' and 'www/public' files to usr, use

grunt back